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Gerrit Pape wrote:
> If runsvdir receives the HUP signal, it sends a term signal to all runsv
> processes it manages.  On the TERM signal, it simply exits, leaving the
> runsv processes alone.  Maybe I should switch that, so that TERM signals
> 'by mistake' are handled better.  It then would re-init the complete
> system, stopping all services plus supervisors on TERM, and starting
> them up again after being re-spawned through inittab.

In cases where runsvdir is going to be automatically respawned on exit, 
this certainly seems to make sense, though you're right inasmuch as 
there's potential for side-effects on the system shutdown procedure... 
how about having a file's (non)existance be used to control this 
behaviour, akin to where runit-init checks for the existance of stopit 
before shutting down?